Thanks for this excellent "Readers Digest Summary" of Yellowcake I and now its sequel,Yellowcake II.
The first few days this story was reported and Wilson was everywhere ad nauseum it was like watching a gigantic media orgasm. Even their faces were flushed as they breathlessly reported the "scandal". Every outrageous claim was reported as fact, obscuring the point of Novak's article--Plame helped set the trip up and suggested hubby to do it. Tenet never knew. Once he saw the information he chose not to pass it on to the President or Cheney because it was of little or no value."
Now Wilson has finally stated on tv the obvious fact to everyone but the GW haters.
This administration and GW would never leak intel or expose a real agent or source.
Since the 1960s and maybe before then, leaks and exposure of agents/sources/techniques have come from one political party, the DemonicRats. Both political and mediot Rats have worked 24/7/365 to harm/weaken/destroy the effectiveness our intel collection and processing for at least 4 decades.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/995849/posts Wilson: Bush Not Party to Leak
The Washington Post ^ | 10/6/2003 | Walter Pincus
Posted on 10/05/2003 10:49 PM PDT by Utah Girl
Former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV said yesterday that the leak of his wife's name as a covert CIA official by Bush administration officials last July could have been for revenge or to undercut his criticisms of the Iraq war or to intimidate other government insiders from talking to journalists.
"I do believe, however, that the president would never have condoned or been party to anything like this," he said yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
The Justice Department has begun an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of the name of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, who served in the CIA's operations division and acted clandestinely under what is called non-official cover. That means she worked in a position not associated with the U.S. government and when overseas on a spy mission was not protected by diplomatic immunity.
Asked whether he thought the leak had endangered his wife, Wilson said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that since the publicity of the Justice Department investigation, "other people" have suggested "perhaps this does make her a target." As a result, he said he and his wife were taking unspecified security precautions.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47562-2003Oct5.html